Sydney Rare Book Auctions: An eclectic bunch of books from the 1500s until present time, A173, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 15, 2026 - February 15, 2026

Page Size: 402 items in 17 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	A. M. Lysaght.	The Journal Of Joseph Banks In The Endeavour With A Commentary		1980	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 635.00
2	With notes John Hunter, M.D.	SILVA: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the Propagation of Timber in his Majesty's Dominions: ...Together with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves.	LONDON	1786	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
3		The Log of H.M.S. Bounty 1787-1789 by, Lieutenant W. Bligh.	Guildford	1975	AUD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 1,270.00
4	J Frederic Daniell	An Introduction to the study of Chemical Philosophy being a Preparatory View of the Forces which concur to the production of Chemical Phenomena		1843	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	AUD 381.00
5	F. A. C. (Frederick Arthur Crisp)	Lowestoft China Factory and the Moulds Found There in December 1902		1907	AUD 800.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 571.50
6	George Mackaness	The Life of Vice-Admiral William Bligh, R.N., F.R.S.	Sydney	1931	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
7	E. W. Hornung	Mr. Justice Raffles	London	1909	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
10	SAINT JEROME [Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus].	Operum D. Hieronymi. Quintus Tomus Commentarios in Prophetas Quos Maiores Vocant Continet. bound with Sextus Tomus Operum Divi Hieronymi Commentarios in Duodecim Prophetas...	Basel	1537	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
11	TWAIN, Mark.	Following the Equator.	Hartford, Connecticut and New York	1897	AUD 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
12	W Balls-Headley	The Evolution of The Diseases of Women	London	1894	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
13	PARKER, K. Langloh.	More Australian Legendary Tales. Collected from various tribes by Mrs. K. Langloh Parker.	London & Melbourne		AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
14	BRUNO, Alberto de Pinardis.	Consiliorum Feudalium D. Alberti Bruni...	Venice	1579	AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
15	CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne.	Mark Twain's Autobiography. With an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine.	New York	1924	AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
16	FACHIN, Andre.	Andreae Fachinei Iurisconsulti Foroliuiensis,... Controversiarum Iuris Libris Decem.	Venice	1619-1620.	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
17	The Rev. James Ballantyne.	Our Colony in 1880. Pictorial & Descriptive with New Map of Victoria and Plan of the City of Melbourne	Melbourne	1880	AUD 600.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
18	Edward S Simpson	Minerals of Western Australia . Facsimile of the 1952 edition	Perth	1984	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
19	Rev W B Clarke.	Remarks on the Sedimentary Formations of New South Wales, Illustrated by References to Other Provinces of Australasia	Sydney	1878	AUD 500.00 - 600.00	AUD 317.50
20		Geographical Memoirs On New South Wales; By Various Hands: Containing An Account Of The Surveyor General's Late Expedition To Two New Ports; ...		1825	AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 952.50
21		An Authentic Journal of the Expedition under Commodore Phillips to Botany Bay... by an Officer. Originally published in London in 1789		1975	AUD 150.00 - 200.00	AUD 215.90
22	PHILLIP, Arthur.	The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.		1950	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 152.40
23	Written Lieutenant William Bligh.	Two facsimile editions of eighteenth century books by Capt. William Bligh: A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, To Timo	Melbourne	1952	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
24	HADDON, A.C. (series editor).	Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits. Volume I General Ethnography.		1935	AUD 400.00 - 500.00	AUD 254.00
25	Edited R.A. Skelton.	Charts & Views Drawn by Cook and His Officers and Reproduced from the Original Manuscripts.		1969	AUD 250.00 - 300.00	AUD 349.25
26	BEAZLEY, C. Raymond (editor).	An English Garner. Voyages and Travels Mainly During the 16th and 17th Centuries.	London	1903	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
27		Wonderful books on French voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Dumont d'Urville: CORNELL, Christine. Questions Relating to Nicolas Baudin's Australian expedition of 1800-1804.	Adelaide	1965	AUD 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000

Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
26th March 2026

Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000

Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum Auctions
Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
25 March 2026

Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.

Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.